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Stone Structures

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Stone structures in New Hampshire, mainly in the White Mountains region. These scenes showcase the early years of New Hampshire, and many of these abandoned structures were part of nineteenth-century farming settlements. Scenes include, dug wells, historic cellar holes, old stone walls, and more. For a larger preview and / or to license a photo for usage in publications, click on photo.
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  • Stone culvert, in the area known as Bowman, along the old railroad bed of the Boston & Maine’s Berlin Branch in Randolph, New Hampshire. Opened in the mid-1800s, and abandoned in the 1990s, the 18 mile long Berlin Branch is now a multi-use trail - the Presidential Recreational Rail Trail.
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  • Old bridge, which crosses Lafayette Brook, along the Notchway Trail in Franconia, New Hampshire. The Notchway Trail is the main trail of the Lafayette Ski Trails.
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  • Remnants of the past near Lafayette Place in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire.
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  • Stone culvert, east of the Pinkham B Road (Dolly Copp Road) crossing, along the old railroad bed of the Boston & Maine’s Berlin Branch in Randolph, New Hampshire. Opened in the mid-1800s, and abandoned in the 1990s, the 18 mile long Berlin Branch is now a multi-use trail - the Presidential Recreational Rail Trail.
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  • Looking downstream at remnants of the old 1900s Gravity Dam on the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River in Lincoln, New Hampshire during the autumn months. This dam was built during the Lincoln Mill era.
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  • Granite culvert, near today’s Common Man Inn & Spa, along the old Pemigewasset Valley Railroad in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Eventually leased to the Boston & Maine Railroad in 1895, the Pemigewasset Valley Railroad connected Plymouth to North Woodstock.
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  • Franconia Notch State Park of Lincoln, New Hampshire USA during the spring months.
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  • Remnants of the stone wall that was built at Ice Pond, near Camp 7 of the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad in Lincoln, New Hampshire. During the logging era, large blocks of ice were cut from this pond and used in iceboxes (early refrigerators). The ice blocks were stored at the Camp 7 ice house and some stored in the ice house at the company store in Lincoln Village.
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  • Abandoned cellar hole at Thornton Gore in Thornton, New Hampshire during the autumn months. Thornton Gore was the site of an old hill farming community that was abandoned during the 19th century. Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this is believed to have been the T. Wyatt homestead.
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  • Remnants of an abandoned cellar hole at Thornton Gore in Thornton, New Hampshire during the autumn months. Thornton Gore was the site of an old hill farming community that was abandoned during the 19th century. Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this is believed to have been the P.P. Merrill homestead.
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  • Remnants of an abandoned farmstead at Thornton Gore in Thornton, New Hampshire during the autumn months. Thornton Gore was the site of an old hill farming community that was abandoned during the 19th century. Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this is believed to have been the J. Merrill farmstead.
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  • Remnants of an abandoned farmstead at Thornton Gore in Thornton, New Hampshire during the autumn months. Thornton Gore was the site of an old hill farming community that was abandoned during the 19th century. Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this is believed to have been the J. Merrill farmstead.
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  • Remnants of an old mill along Talford Brook at Thornton Gore in Thornton, New Hampshire during the autumn months. This was an old hill farm community that was abandoned during the 19th century.
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  • Remnants of an old mill along Talford Brook at Thornton Gore in Thornton, New Hampshire during the autumn months. This was an old hill farm community that was abandoned during the 19th century.
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  • Abandoned cellar hole along an old dirt road, near Black Brook, in Warren, New Hampshire. Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this was the homestead of S.T. Hayt. This is a side view of the split stone arch that supported the chimney structure. Consisting of two walls of stones topped with horizontal stones this type of chimney arch was used after the turn of the nineteenth century. And it has been documented that farmers used this area for winter food storage.
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  • Abandoned cellar hole along an old dirt road, near Black Brook, in Warren, New Hampshire. Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this was the homestead of S.T. Hayt. This is inside the split stone arch that supported the chimney structure. Consisting of two walls of stones topped with horizontal stones this type of chimney arch was used after the turn of the nineteenth century. And it has been documented that farmers used this area for winter food storage.
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  • Looking down a stoned lined dug well at an abandoned homestead along an old road off Tunnel Brook Road in Easton, New Hampshire. Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County (when this area was part of Landaff) this was the O. Brook homestead. Today, this well is still about 15 feet deep.
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  • A stoned lined dug well at an abandoned homestead along an old road off Tunnel Brook Road in Easton, New Hampshire. Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County (when this area was part of Landaff) this was the O. Brook homestead. Today, this well is still about 15 feet deep.
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  • An old stone wall along the Cobble Hill Trail in Landaff, New Hampshire during the summer months. This area was part of an 1800s hill farming community
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  • Remnants of a stone bridge along an abandoned road off the Cobble Hill Trail in Landaff, New Hampshire. This area was part of an 1800s hill farming community.
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  • Site of Merrill’s Mountain House in Warren, New Hampshire during the summer months. In 1834 Nathaniel Merrill built a farmhouse at this site, and in 1860 the Merrill family converted the farmhouse to an inn known as Merrill’s Mountain Home or Merrill’s Mountain House. The inn burned down in 1915.
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  • Remnants of the cottages that were at the Profile House in Franconia Notch State Park, New Hampshire. The Profile House was an 1800s grand hotel located just south of Echo Lake in the area of the parking lot for the Cannon Mountain Ski Area and Tramway. The hotel existed for 70 years before burning down in 1923. It was even torn down and rebuilt during its existence.
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  • Diana's Baths in Bartlett, New Hampshire USA during the winter months. Diana's Baths is a series of small cascades located on Lucy Brook. Remnants of the old 1800s “Lucy's Mill” can be found in this area. The Lucy family owned this sawmill, and they abandoned it in the 1940s.
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  • An abandoned cellar hole along an old road off Tunnel Brook Road in Benton, New Hampshire. This area was once known as Coventry, and based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this is believed to have been the Mulliken homestead.
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  • Remnants of an old cellar hole along an abandoned road in Benton, New Hampshire. This road traveled in between the old East Road and the old North and South Road (now Long Pond Road). Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this is possibly the site of the David Clough farm.
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  • Remnants of an old cellar hole along an abandoned road in Benton, New Hampshire. This road traveled in between the old East Road and the old North and South Road (now Long Pond Road). Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this is possibly the site of the David Clough farm.
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  • An abandoned cellar hole along an old road in Benton, New Hampshire. This road is located off the North and South Road (now Long Pond Road). And based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this is believed to have been the homesite of Gilbert P. Wright.
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  • Abandoned stone work along an old road, near the abandoned homestead of Gilbert P. Wright, in Benton, New Hampshire. This road is located off the North and South Road (now Long Pond Road).
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  • A cellar hole from the 1800s along the old North and South Road (now Long Pond Road) in Benton, New Hampshire. Based on an 1860 historical map of Grafton County this is believed to have been the homesite of Josiah F. Jeffers.
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  • Remnants of the Goulding house in the village of Livermore in the New Hampshire White Mountains. This was a logging village in the late 19th and early 20th centuries along the Sawyer River Railroad. The town and railroad were owned by the Saunders family.
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  • Kinsman Cemetery in Easton, New Hampshire USA during the autumn months
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  • Stone wall at Center Harbor Memorial Park Cemetery in Center Harbor, New Hampshire USA during the autumn months.
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  • The Atwood Place home site cellar hole along Sandwich Notch Road in Sandwich, New Hampshire. This homestead was part of an early nineteenth century hill farm community (thirty to forty families), in Sandwich Notch. By 1860 most of the these families had left the Notch looking for better farming land.
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  • Dug well at the Samuel Wallace Farmstead along the abandoned North Road in the Sandwich Range Wilderness of New Hampshire. This 400 acre homestead was part of the early nineteenth century hill farm community (thirty to forty families) in Sandwich Notch. By 1860 only eight families lived in the Notch and by the turn of the twentieth century only one person lived in the Notch year around.
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  • The John Hart Place home site cellar hole along Sandwich Notch Road in Sandwich, New Hampshire USA. During the early nineteenth century, thirty to forty families lived (hill farm community) in the Notch. By 1860 only eight families lived in the Notch and by the turn of the twentieth century only one person, Moses Hall, lived in the Notch year around. Now a private residence the Hall Place is the only house left on the Notch Road.
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  • The Seldon Avery Place home site cellar hole along Sandwich Notch Road in Sandwich, New Hampshire. During the early nineteenth century, thirty to forty families lived in the Notch. By 1860, only eight families lived in the Notch and by the turn of the twentieth century only one person lived in the Notch year around.
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  • Colonel Lewis B. Smith site in Sandwich Notch in Sandwich, New Hampshire USA. This abandoned farmstead was occupied by three generations of the Smith family from the 18th century to the late 19th century.
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  • Smith Burying ground in Sandwich, New Hampshire. The Smith farmstead was occupied by three generations of the Smith family from the 18th century to the late 19th century.
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  • Smith Burying ground in Sandwich, New Hampshire. The Smith farmstead was occupied by three generations of the Smith family from the 18th century to the late 19th century.
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  • Old dug well at Colonel Lewis B. Smith site in Sandwich Notch in Sandwich, New Hampshire USA. From the 18th century to the late 19th century, this now abandoned farmstead was occupied by three generations of the Smith family.
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  • Stone Iron Furnace in Franconia, New Hampshire. Originally built in the early 1800s this is the only blast furnace still standing in New Hampshire.
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  • Stone Iron Furnace in Franconia, New Hampshire. Built with local granite, this is the only blast furnace still standing in New Hampshire.
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  • The remnants of an abandoned granite foundation from the 19th - 20th century mountain settlement in the forest of Pawtuckaway State Park in Deerfield, New Hampshire USA during the spring months.
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  • Franconia Notch State Park in the White Mountains, New Hampshire.
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  • Gleason Falls Bridge in Hillsborough, New Hampshire during the autumn months. This stone bridge spans Beard Brook.
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  • A stone double arch bridge which spans Beard Brook at the meeting of Beard and Jones Road in Hillsborough, New Hampshire during the autumn months. Known as the Old Carr Bridge, built by Captain Jonathan Carr in 1840.
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  • A stone wall at Friedsam Town Forest in Chesterfield, New Hampshire during the autumn months.
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  • A stone wall at Friedsam Town Forest in Chesterfield, New Hampshire during the autumn months.
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  • A stone wall at Friedsam Town Forest in Chesterfield, New Hampshire during the autumn months.
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  • Stone wall at Madame Sherri Forest in Chesterfield, New Hampshire during the autumn months.
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